Future Islands: The New Zealand Exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale

Overview

Presenting projects by 50 New Zealand architecture practices, Future Islands is the New Zealand exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

The exhibition is quite a sight to behold — the Adam Art Gallery's spaces will be repurposed as a sky of sorts, in which floating archipelago forms hold intricate scale models of homes, settlements and futuristic architectural possibilities. They're new ways to live, and what a world. Built, not-yet-built and speculative projects feature, floating through the rooms. You can spot a miniature Athfield Architects community cascading down a non-existent hill, and yachts sailing on along walls.

Among the technical forms used are recycled materials, yacht-building techniques, audio-visual installations and hand crafted elements to offer an insight on Aotearoa's architecture through the eyes of those who shape it everyday.